Distances: 1 mile, 2 miles
Ciwt left cold, windy Palm Springs
and returned to cold, windy, rainy San Francisco.
No complaints here. We need the rain and Ciwt is happy to be home.*
* Also (a couple of days later) there's this just in for SFO:
Saturday, November 30, 2019
Home on the Rain --- Days 8/236 & 37
Walk: Union Square, SFMOMA
Distances: 1 mile, 2 miles
Ciwt left cold, windy Palm Springs
and returned to cold, windy, rainy San Francisco.
Distances: 1 mile, 2 miles
Ciwt left cold, windy Palm Springs
and returned to cold, windy, rainy San Francisco.
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Crafts at SFO --- Day 8/235
Walk: Turkey Trot around Country Club Property
Distance: 2.9 miles, Pickleball
On her way to Palm Springs Ciwt noticed an excellent art exhition at SFO: California Studio Craft, featuring works from the collection of Forrest L. Merrill.*
Studio craft combines traditional handmade craft with refined qualities of fine art and includes both utilitarian and purely aesthetic pieces. Most craft in the United States dates back to Native ceramic and weaving traditions and is regionally diverse.
By the 1930's specialized schools such as Oakland's California College of Arts and Crafts began offering specialized training in crafts. The G.I. Bill of 1944 fueled growth in studio craft, and thousands of artist-craftspeople enrolled in expanded curricula and were trained during the postwar period. Thus the 1950's and 60's were groundbreaking years, and craft provided an alternative to mass-produced products by offering artistic-yet-stylish handmade items for the home.
Magazines at the time featured craft items for the home showcasing their informal, natural appearance and the ways in which they softened the stark lines of modern interior design. Following suit many people collected and furnished their homes with original ceramics, sculptural furniture, on-and off-loom textiles, old-world metal works and glass created by entirely new hot-glass techniques. Slowly these craft works began to be accepted into the once rigid fine arts museums which had considered craft 'women's work' and 'lesser' than the 'aestheticlly superior' painting and scurlptural arts.
* Ciwt really likes the way airports have embraced art displays in their terminals.
Distance: 2.9 miles, Pickleball
On her way to Palm Springs Ciwt noticed an excellent art exhition at SFO: California Studio Craft, featuring works from the collection of Forrest L. Merrill.*
Studio craft combines traditional handmade craft with refined qualities of fine art and includes both utilitarian and purely aesthetic pieces. Most craft in the United States dates back to Native ceramic and weaving traditions and is regionally diverse.
By the 1930's specialized schools such as Oakland's California College of Arts and Crafts began offering specialized training in crafts. The G.I. Bill of 1944 fueled growth in studio craft, and thousands of artist-craftspeople enrolled in expanded curricula and were trained during the postwar period. Thus the 1950's and 60's were groundbreaking years, and craft provided an alternative to mass-produced products by offering artistic-yet-stylish handmade items for the home.
Magazines at the time featured craft items for the home showcasing their informal, natural appearance and the ways in which they softened the stark lines of modern interior design. Following suit many people collected and furnished their homes with original ceramics, sculptural furniture, on-and off-loom textiles, old-world metal works and glass created by entirely new hot-glass techniques. Slowly these craft works began to be accepted into the once rigid fine arts museums which had considered craft 'women's work' and 'lesser' than the 'aestheticlly superior' painting and scurlptural arts.
* Ciwt really likes the way airports have embraced art displays in their terminals.
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Hearts and Clients —- Day 8/234
Walk: Around Indian Wells
Distance: 2.5 (cold) miles, pickleball
Distance: 2.5 (cold) miles, pickleball
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| CIWT 💓s her clients at Palm Springs Art Muséum |
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Into the WILD Blue Yonder --- Day 8/233
Walk: SFO, Palm Springs Airport (hopefully), Palm Springs Art Museum, Indian Wells
Distance: A few miles
Distance: A few miles
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| Hopefully not Ciwt's plane today |
Monday, November 25, 2019
Change of Clothes --- Days 8/230,31,32
Walks: Hood x 3
Distance: 3.5 x3, nice and leisurely, la la
So, Ciwt totally luxuriates in packing for trips. She tries to get things down to just the things she'll wear. (Ha. Good luck with that, but she tries). At the same time she attempts a closet caper, getting rid of things she's not wearing. (Ha. Again).
This time the trip is to Palm Springs. So, easy peasy since Palm Springs is all about hot, balmy,
bright colors, and San Francisco Ciwt has very few of those type clothes. She's been spending the past few days sorting and folding the tiny, light garments and marveling at how her suitcase is just barely half full and light as a feather.
This was planned also to give Ciwt plenty of time to tell CIWT readers about her trip, maybe write a few entries in advance, wish all her readers a Wonderful Thanksgiving, those sorts of things. Just before sitting down to do that she decided to check Palm Springs weather.
What the ***##&@! Rainy and COLD on top of which her brother called from the golf course to say it was Really Windy. (Have a nice bumpy flight, Ciwt) So, now she leaves tomorrow and frantically repacking, stuffing winter type layers into her suitcase and hopelessly behind in CIWT writing time.
In case her iphone doesn't cooperate with entries, she wishes you a Wonderful Thanksgiving and will give you a full report on her return.
Distance: 3.5 x3, nice and leisurely, la la
Search Results
Weather Result
Palm Springs, CA
Monday 6:00 PM
Clear
Winter Storm Warning (great)
Southwestern California
3 hours ago – National Weather Service
Total snowfall accumulations of 3 to 6 inches between 4000-4500 ft, 6 to 18 inches from 4500 to 5500 ft, and from 1 to 3 ft above 5500 ft ... Light snow accumulations are ...
This time the trip is to Palm Springs. So, easy peasy since Palm Springs is all about hot, balmy,
bright colors, and San Francisco Ciwt has very few of those type clothes. She's been spending the past few days sorting and folding the tiny, light garments and marveling at how her suitcase is just barely half full and light as a feather.
This was planned also to give Ciwt plenty of time to tell CIWT readers about her trip, maybe write a few entries in advance, wish all her readers a Wonderful Thanksgiving, those sorts of things. Just before sitting down to do that she decided to check Palm Springs weather.
What the ***##&@! Rainy and COLD on top of which her brother called from the golf course to say it was Really Windy. (Have a nice bumpy flight, Ciwt) So, now she leaves tomorrow and frantically repacking, stuffing winter type layers into her suitcase and hopelessly behind in CIWT writing time.
In case her iphone doesn't cooperate with entries, she wishes you a Wonderful Thanksgiving and will give you a full report on her return.
Friday, November 22, 2019
Ciwt in Wonderland --- Day 8/228 & 229
Walk: Day 1. PGCC exercise class, Seminary, San Anselmo Day 2. Sea Cliff Neighborhood, San Francisco
Distance: 1. 1 Hour Class 2. 4.5 miles walk
Distance: 1. 1 Hour Class 2. 4.5 miles walk
| 1. University of Redlands, Marin Campus where she goes weekly |
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| 2. The stunning Sea Cliff neighborhood which she drives through often on the way to the Legion of Honor |
Sometimes Ciwt gets so focussed she forgets to be awed by the extensiveness of the natural beauty of the Bay Area. Sometimes, not often.
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Doubling Down --- Days 8/226&7
Walk: 1. PGCC Exercise, then later Book Group (So Big by Edna Ferber), and even later, Board Meeting
2.Various Appointments
Distance: 1. 1 hr. exercise class then private, 4.5 miles 2. 3.6 miles
The days start dwindling and running together this time of year so Ciwt is offering a two days for one CIWT from the Asian Art Museum's current show of two artists born continents apart who became intense, formative friends during their brief time together. In 1950 Hasegawa, an established Japanese artist, was assigned as guide and interpreter to Noguchi when he was in Japan forming his artistic ideas. Each was concerned with the role of Japanese culture after World War II with Hagegawa feeling that Japan must now embrace both the old traditions as well as new and outside ways while, at the time, Noguchi felt Japan should look almost entirely to its own history and traditions and esckew the West. Through rich conversatoins the two became each other's teacher, and, each in his own way, came to embrace the philosophy that "the strength of tradition lies in its adaptability to continuous change." (Noguchi, 1963)
2.Various Appointments
Distance: 1. 1 hr. exercise class then private, 4.5 miles 2. 3.6 miles
Saburo Hasegawa (Japanese, 1906-1957), Civilization, 1951, Ink on paper
Isamu Noguchi (American, 1904-1988), Tsukubai, 1962, Granite and water
Monday, November 18, 2019
Tour Slowdown = Errands Speed Up --- Day 8/225
Walk: Hood Errands
Distance: 3.8 miles
Distance: 3.8 miles
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| Roz Chast always nails it. |
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